Top 100 Become An Quotes
#1. And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.
Pope Francis
#2. I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#3. The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing
Hans Hofmann
#4. Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me. - Walt Longmire
Craig Johnson
#5. To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
Ernest Istook
#6. If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!
Kenny Ortega
#7. One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.
Lynn Coady
#8. Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
Chico Buarque
#9. Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.
Ahmed Mostafa
#10. I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
Emily Mortimer
#11. These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
Claude Monet
#12. You don't necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices. The important thing, I think, is to choose for yourself. Standing
Banana Yoshimoto
#13. Listening to all words
the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture
can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.
Kathleen Norris
#14. Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus.
Dolores Hart
#15. When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.
Mason Cooley
#16. Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?"
"I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. "That's yours.
Mo Hayder
#17. The putrid carnal waste dump my skin and hair had become. An irate woman beating me with her placenta would have been more welcome than the copious amount of ... snot gluing my fingers together.
Cecy Robson
#18. I've become an animal rights activist.
Steve Wynn
#19. ... any hypothesis, however absurd, may be useful in science, if it enables a discoverer to conceive things in a new way; but when it has served this purpose by luck, it is likely to become an obstacle to further advance.
Bertrand Russell
#20. Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not derive their sense of self from the group, which does not mean there cannot be a sense of being part of this group. But the group itself does not become an egoic entity.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. Noah St. John, bad buy of rock and concerned father of imaginary daughters. Hell hath frozen over and become an ice ring.
Nalini Singh
#22. We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
Thomas S. Monson
#23. I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
John C. Maxwell
#25. Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.
Jim Abbott
#26. I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.
Lorde
#27. I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#28. Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
Gary Zukav
#29. By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace
Wayne Dyer
#30. Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
Dan Shechtman
#31. I will become an ocean and make you my greatest secret ever, I'll keep thousands of demons to guard my secret. I'll create storms that none has ever seen. I will lure everyone to the darkest sides and will destroy them if they try to reach you and see what I am hiding back in my heart.
Akshay Vasu
#32. My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
Frank Abagnale
#33. More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.
Frank Herbert
#34. There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.
Carwyn Jones
#35. a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.
Anonymous
#36. It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.
John Dewey
#37. Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His
Ji-li Jiang
#38. We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.
Andy Serkis
#39. It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
Daniel Wu
#40. At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.
Leslie Hope
#41. I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
Edward Albee
#42. Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.
Brent Runyon
#43. I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
Colin Firth
#44. It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.
Mickey Mantle
#45. To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.
Steven Magee
#46. A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.
Peter Schjeldahl
#47. My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
Claude Nicollier
#48. Live as if your life has become an example of goodness for others to follow.
Debasish Mridha
#49. With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
John Irving
#50. I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
Patrick Duffy
#51. It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.
Milan Kundera
#52. Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.
Criss Jami
#53. I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.
Martin Seligman
#54. I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.
Nolan Gould
#55. I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?
Frances Fox Piven
#56. Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.
W. Cleon Skousen
#57. To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And since I'm so very aware of my own need for grace, I must be willing to freely give it away. Each hole left from rejection must become an opportunity to create more and more space for grace in my heart.
Lysa TerKeurst
#58. Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.
Paul Watson
#59. It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
Samuel West
#60. To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.
Cass Gilbert
#61. It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
David Foster Wallace
#62. Every Christian should become an ambassador of Christ ... every Christian should be so intoxicated with Christ and so filled with holy fervor that nothing could ever quench his [passion] ... Let us capture some of the magnificent obsession that [the] early Christians had!
Billy Graham
#63. I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!
Sylvia Kristel
#64. What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
Napoleon Hill
#65. 'Lawrence of Arabia' is a film that anyone wanting to become an actor should watch at least six hundred times.
Sid Haig
#67. Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Harry Callahan
#68. Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.
Mike Lookinland
#69. Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
Nic Pizzolatto
#70. She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#71. I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal.
Miguel Quinteros
#72. I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.
Soleil Moon Frye
#73. When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
Kirstie Alley
#74. We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.
Nelson Mandela
#75. In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.
Khushwant Singh
#76. Africa will become an out-of-reach commodity instead of the expendable refuse heap we've treated her as.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#77. I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.
Zoroaster
#78. A good book will surely become an event in your life.
Aman Jassal
#79. I become an actress to do things that scare the sh*t out of me and I felt like I didn't stand a chance to get this part because people have preconceived notions about me, but if they gave me the part, I would do everything in my power to not screw it up.
Lizzy Caplan
#80. I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.
Zachary Lazar
#81. But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.
Maurice Thompson
#82. Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
Peter Tork
#83. If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.
Jess Walter
#84. The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.
Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.
Aaron Shepard
#85. I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
Danny Huston
#86. I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.
Sara Paxton
#87. It is because you were not allowed to be a normal city with normal people, so much so that you become an abnormal place with abnormal people- Arabs and Jews alike.
Suad Amiry
#88. I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
Albert Einstein
#89. Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title
Georgette Heyer
#90. My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
Joan Cusack
#91. You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.
Linda Cardellini
#92. Somebody once said, educate a woman and you will educate a family. I am saying, empower a woman to become an entrepreneur, and you will create an entire family of entrepreneurs. Woman entrepreneurship is the need of the nation right now. It's the surest and quickest way to make India a superpower.
Vishwas Mudagal
#93. Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'
Martin Clunes
#94. We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal
Sebastiao Salgado
#95. Dame Fortune once upon a day To me was bountiful and kind; But all things change; she changed her mind, And what she gave she took away. O Fortune, long I've sued to thee; The gifts thou gavest me restore, For, trust me, I would ask no more, Could 'was' become an 'is' for me.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#96. It was cruel, though, to want to, and tempting, so I'd become an expert at almost.
Ali Smith
#97. Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
Marlin K. Jensen
#98. If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
Richard Branson
#99. Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.
Li Keqiang
#100. The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Douglas Kennedy
